The NBA dunk contest had plenty of hits and misses but Oklahoma City’s Hamidou Diallo was a deserved winner after delivering on all his dunks as New York’s Dennis Smith Jr. much like the Knicks, struggled to keep up.

The highlight of Diallo’s performance was an astonishing dunk over a standing 2.16 metre tall NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal. The impressive feat is all the more impressive when you factor in Diallo is 1.95 metres tall.

It sent social media into absolute meltdown with many proclaiming it to be the greatest dunk they’d ever seen.

Diallo nailed the dunk on his first attempt, not using his hands as he leapt over Shaq and then showed off the Superman logo he had under his Thunder singlet.

“Definitely great dunk, this is for my mum,” Diallo said upon winning the contest.

And while you might think one dunk contest win might be enough for Diallo, he wants more and revenge opn predicted No.1 pick Zion Williamson, after Diallo lost a high school dunk contest to that youngster last year.

OKC’s Hamidou Diallo, who lost to Duke’s Zion Williamson in a high school dunk contest, wants a rematch next year in Chicago. “Oh that’s tough. Let’s do it.” pic.twitter.com/t6OO2e2fkr

The 3-point contest is frequently one of the best parts of the NBA’s All Star Weekend and again it did not disappoint as Steph Curry — dare we say — choked in the final.

Yes, it looked like the three-time League MVP had his second 3-point contest win as he came out of the blocks blazing in the final — making his first 9 shots as Brooklyn’s Joe Harris, who had set a mark of 26 looked on disconsolate — but then something bizarre happened.

From the top of the arc he struggled, hitting only two shots and then continued to battle at the elbow, before coming home strong with his moneyball rack for a score of 24 but when his third attempt missed, the trophy belonged to a stunned Harris.

Stepping up to the mark needing 25 points or more to just make the final Curry started slow but managed to knock down his last 10 shots including the entire moneyball rack before thumping his chest and letting out a primal roar as he seemed to say to the other contenders ‘come get me’.

The only man left in with a shot after him was defending champion Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns and despite knocking down his last 6 shots and full rack of moneyballs he fell short of the final on 23 points.

Booker had needed 25 to tie eventual winner Harris who managed to stay calm despite going first and set the early mark.

Until Curry only Sacramento Kings young gun Hield could match Harris, and Hield even missed one moneyball.

Perhaps the biggest cheer outside of Curry went to NBA legend Dirk Nowitzki, who made his first appearance in the competition since winning in 2006 and the German did not disgrace himself, despite one airball, tying Damian Lillard on 17 points.

Some good news for Steph Curry though in beating brother Seth the younger Curry now has to pay for tickets for their whole family to each match they play against the other until one retires.

As a result of doing worse than Steph in tonight’s 3-point contest, Seth Curry has lost the bet. He will be paying roughly $45,000 a year for Curry family tickets for Seth vs Steph matchups. https://t.co/2hl1buiZU7

The Skills challenge has been won and run and this time the winner was Boston’s Jayson Tatum and he did it in crazy fashion to beat Atlanta rookie Trae Young in the final round.

Things got under way with an all-European match-up as Denver’s Nikola Jokic came from behind to beat Orlando’s Nikola Vucevic and that theme continued with Tatum doing the same to beat Memphis star Mike Conley.

Luka Doncic pulled the same trick to beat Kyle Kuzma but what was really impressive was the way Atlanta rookie Young beat Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox in the opening round.

Unable to hit the chest pass Young was a long way behind Fox, who missed a 3-point shot he had plenty of time to make before Young released from long range on the run dropping his shot in spectacular fashion.

The two young guns got off the mark quickly before the Atlanta rookies’ speed had him in the lead but Tatum went Steph Curry levels of crazy with the 3-pointer — lagging behind Young, Tatum let fly from beyond halfcourt and banked it in for the win.

CURRY BROTHERS IN INSANE ALL-STAR WEEKEND WAGER

The Curry brothers have levied a wager for their head-to-head competition in today’s NBA 3-point contest: Whoever loses must buy tickets for the entire Curry family anytime they play against each other for the remainder of their NBA careers.

Stephen said Saturday before practice for the All-Star Game that “the stakes are pretty high considering how many people show up for our games.”

It’s unclear if the group will include a new sister-in-law. There are reports that Seth has proposed to Callie Rivers, the daughter of NBA coach Doc Rivers. Asked about it Saturday, Seth declined to talk about their relationship.

Stephen, who won the 3-point competition in 2015, said he is motivated to win it again because he “knows for a fact” that everybody else in the Curry family — including his parents — are pulling for Seth.

“So I hope to pull the upset,” Stephen said with a laugh.

Both players are hoping to do better than their father Dell Curry, who participated in the 3-point contest twice but never made it out of the first round. Seth, making his first appearance, said Dell advised them to “do a whole lot better than I did.”

And while the two-time league MVP, three-time NBA champion and six-time All Star remained fairly quiet outside of the press conference, younger brother Seth was all swagger and bluster on social media.

Anthony Davis did not get what he initially wanted before the NBA trade deadline and stayed a Pelican when all of the hype was about him going to the LA Lakers.

Now Davis admnite all options are open to him at the end of the season, including going to the Boston Celtics.

“They are on my list,” Davis said.

That was just one of several jaw-dropping moments during Davis’ 24-minute meeting with the media at NBA All-Star weekend.

He discussed not only the possibility of playing for the Celtics but also why he would be interested in joining the New York Knicks, the firing of Pelicans general manager Dell Demps on Friday afternoon and why he asked for a trade out of New Orleans in the first place.

“I’m just keeping it real, to be honest,” Davis said with a smile.

“I knew that’s all you guys wanted to talk about. I just stated how I feel, stated my intentions, and we’ll go on from there.”

The most significant of those stated intentions, however, was Davis’ willingness to go to Boston. With young forwards Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown and a plethora of draft picks — most notably a protected first-rounder from the rebuilding Memphis Grizzlies that could become unprotected in 2021 — the Celtics have enough to beat any other team’s realistic offer for Davis.

The Celtics of course could not trade for Davis before the deadline due to already having Kyrie Irving on the roster and under a designated rookie contract extension but once the deadline passed Boston dared to dream about having both All Stars on the roster.

Davis though also suggested he was open to listening to any and all 29 other NBA teams about where he could end up, specifically mentioning the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Clippers and Milwaukee Bucks, where a tandem with Giannis Antetokunmpo would be terrifying for opponents.

“Market (size) doesn’t matter to me,” Davis said.

“I just want to win. Big market, small market, it doesn’t matter. My focus is on winning at this point in my career. And wherever that may be, it could be a big market or a small market, I just want to win.”

Davis was asked why he would be interested in playing for the Knicks, who are on his list while sporting the NBA’s second-worst record at 11-47.

“It’s a great franchise,” Davis said.

“Playing obviously at the Garden, the city … but also Milwaukee is on that list, too. It doesn’t matter about big market, small market; it’s about winning for me.

“[The Knicks] have a nice little team, but I don’t go look at teams. … I’m still with the Pelicans. I’m still representing the Pelicans. I don’t go out and look at other teams and say, ‘How can I fit here?’

“When that time comes, that time comes. My job right now is to go finish these last 20-something games in New Orleans and see what goes from there.”